St. Paul daily globe., 1887-12-02
Trials That Beset Members
of the Soldiers Home
Commission.
Gossip Cleaned in One Day
From the Rotundas--Jim
Donnelly's Mistake.
Summary Of the Doings Of
One Day Gathered From
..- All Sources.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
DIR. Horton, the Catarrh Specialist,
Is Away, Leaving His Bills Be-
hind n im


DIR. Horton, the Catarrh Specialist,
Is Away, Leaving His Bills Be-
hind Him.
Rooms Nos. and up stairs, No PIT
East Seventh street, are vacant. They
were occupied up to last Friday night
by certain DR.. Horton and t1eShy
woman who passed as his wife. a sign
over the door read DrS. JenigOr q HOr-
ton. but no one ever discovered DR..
JenigOr. If any inquiries were made
after the senior member of the firm, the
answer was invariably that he was out
Drs. JenigOr q Horton were extensive
advertisers in every daily paper in st.
Paul and Minneapolis. They also adj
vertised extensively by means OF
dodgers passed by small boys on cor
nerS. The speciality of the medicine
men was catarrh. They had sure cure
for all kinds of the diSagreeable disease,
and sold medical VapOr inhaler and
spray apparatus" to patients, which
were warranted to be effective. The
person known as Drs. JenigOr d HOr
Ton retailed these simple machines at
$50 apiece, and required patients to pay
cash down, with the promise that if the
machine did not work satisfactorily the
purchaser could have the money back,
after a thirty-day's trial. He had hun
dredS of PATIENTS, and this was good
graft, but DR.. Horton had another. Fri
day afternoon last, DR.. Horton and his
wife made the rounds of dozen cloth
ing. furnishing, boot and shoe and dry
goods stores. and purchased everything
in sight, from collar buttons to carpets.
All these things cost much money, but
the doctor drew out a check-bOOk, in an
imperiouS way, and gave checks Oh the
Bank of Minnesota i'll payment of each
bill, ordering the goods delivered at his
rooms, No. PIT East Seventh street.
The Boston One Price Clothing house
got a check for $50; Gustave Heine-
mann, dry goods; E. Allen IL Co, dry
goods: G. A. Dibble, notions; A. Brad
ley, boots and shoes, and dozen other
dealers got checks varying i'll amounts
from S25 to S75. All Friday afternoon
delivery wagons kept driving up to No.
217, and package after package was
heaped up in the
DOCTORS S MEDICINE ROOM.
Nobody had the fainteSt suspicion
that anything was wrong, and the doc
tor impressed everybody as a man of
profound knowledge and considerable
affiuence. 1t was too late to get any of
those checks to the bank that afternoon,
but on Saturday many of them were
presented for payment, and the cash
Ter gave out the discOmforting in
formation that DR.. HOttOn had
no account there. Saturday morn
ing the landlady from whom
DIR. Horton rented his rooms, also made
discovery. The door was locked, and
no answer came from within after re-
peated knocking. Finally the door was
in 10 nAl Ax-;cO
words, ''the room looked like cyclone
had struck it." Great piles of wrapping
paper, empty bottles and other useless
rubbish Ornamented the floor, the lace
curtains, the bed clothing, pillows, mat
treSSes, chairs, and all the furniture eX-
cept the stove and the carpet were gone.
This much belonging to the landlady,
and all the doctors effects, including
two big trunks, which he often pointed
to with pride as heirlOOms of his family,
were removed. Nobody knows where
the doctor and his wife went or
exactly when he went, but parties
living in the vicinity remember that a
dray stopped in front of the place about
$3.50 Friday night, and big box, several
trunks and odd pieces of furniture were
loaded on it. The doctor is gone, but
not forgotten. Every day since his
going people have come with bills, for
all sorts of things, and yesterday being
the first of the month, callers were eS-
pecially numerous. People have come
to return his worthless machines, and
still others to get treated for the ca
tarrh. The lamented doctor leaves bills
amounting to about 5000, over half of
which is owed to newspaper advertising
agents; and the total amount of the
worthless checks he uttered is about
S400 more. This is all he did leave; he
took everything else with him. The
matter has been placed in the hands of
detective agency, and he will be pur-
sued. 1t is known that his wife'S par
entS live at NOrthfield, Minn., and she
may have gone there. but it is doubtful
if the doctor will spend the winter any
where in this vicinity.
THE WORK PILES UP.
1t Is no Sinecure to Serve on the
Soldiers Home Commission.
"The people who have an idea that
the managers of theSoldiers' home have
nothing to do, ought to drop in and look
at this pile of applications for admis-
Sion," said Secretary Sawyer, of the
commission, as he looked over pile of
documents a foot or more in height.
''SOme people, too, think that all they
have to do is to drop down on the home
and be fed at the public crib. But they
can't do it. A few days ago such an in
dividual came down from Minneapolis
determined to stay. On account of the
extreme cold we kept him over night,
but the next morning an application
form was given him and he was hurried
back to the city. We have even re-
fused this now, and absolutely
no one can stay at the home a
single night, until he has been regularly
admitted. The form is quite strict in
its requirements, and a man must be
really deserving OF aid or he cannot get
it from the Soldiers home. Then
there's a pile of bills from all over the
state-thirty or more. These are for
outside aid, given to those hardly able
to support themselves, as well as to
those for whom we have no accOmmoda-
tions. It's very fortunate thing that
the board is so conservative in the mat
ter of admission and expenditures or
the fund would soon be gone. Why,
the whole fund wouldn't last three
months if all that request admission
were granted it. We shall probably
only take care of those actually in the
various county poor houses. and our
hands will be full enough at that"